Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — Rensselaer Couple Married at Home of Bride in Fair Oaks. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Couple Married at Home of Bride in Fair Oaks.

At 12 o’clock this Wednesday noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Kullas, in Fair Oaks, occurred the marriage of their Miss Helen, to Mr. Harry Alfred Collins secretary-treasurer of the National Mercantile Agency of Rensselaer and also associated with his father, Alfred Collins, proprietor of the River Queen Mills. The wedding was in the presence of the two families. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Collins, the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rich, of York ville, 111., Hershel Collins, of Rensselaer, and Paul and Leland Collins, of Indianapolis, took the milk train here thte morning to attend the wedding. Young Mr. and Mrs. Collins will take a trip for several days and then come to Rensselaer to begin housekeeping. Their trip will include a visit to Clay City, 111., with relatives Aliss Kullis has clerked in the Racket Store in Rensselaer for some time and has made many friends during her residence here. Mr. Collins is the youngest son of his parents and is regared as one of the young business hustlers of this city. Although he has not yet' reached his majority, he has not only takeh an active interest in conduct of his father’s business but also organized in connection with Mr. Harry Roelofs, the National Mercantile Agency, which has met splendid success in the field of collections. Success in this way having come to him, it is natural that he went out and collected a wife, and the many friends of both will join the Republican in wishing them a life of happiness.

The Democrat, as might be supposed, comes to the defense of Henry Barnhart, the 13th district congressman, who took $4,500 in salary that had accrued following the death of Abraham L. Brick and before Barnhart was elected and installed in office. That is all right for a democratic congressman, but Babcock feels that a city councilman should pay back S3O of an SBO annual salary. This Is Babcock’s consistency. The kiad that figures in his claim as the “taxpayers’ friend” when he secretly for eight years participated in a graft by an agreement to refrain from competitive bidding for the city printing and during: which time he took a rake off of first 30 and later 20 per cent and gave nothing in return. Fine sample of purity to suggest that councilmen pay back' a part of‘their salaries. “Taxpayers’ friend! ” Great conceit to make so brazenly . Never took part in a frameup. Ha! Ha!